High school · Tennessee
Tennessee high school girls' wrestling
TSSAA has crowned girls' state champions in Tennessee since 2015. 1,101 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 160 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- TSSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2015
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- tssaa.org, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
The TSSAA's own Title IX Trailblazers page dates girls wrestling to 2015 and dual wrestling to 2022. The weight class set is the 12 class set published in the TSSAA's 2025-26 girls wrestling regulations, which its own 2026 state brackets match. As of the check date the TSSAA had posted only fall 2026-27 regulations, so no 2026-27 wrestling set exists in a TSSAA document yet. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The TSSAA has posted a 2026-27 girls wrestling calendar and 2026-27 bylaws, but the 2026-27 girls wrestling regulations file is not at the expected path (403) and the girls wrestling page links none. The 2025-26 regulations print the NFHS 12 class set. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-22: no 2026-27 document found on tssaa.org/sports/wrestling-girls as of 2026-09-22. The 2026-27 girls wrestling regulations file still returns 403 at the expected cms-files path; the 2026-27 girls wrestling calendar dates the state dual meet January 30, 2027 and state championships February 19 to 20, 2027 and prints no weights.
The 2026-27 Tennessee championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Tennessee
The NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, girls' wrestling column. Every number here is the survey's own; nothing is estimated or carried forward.
That is 40 more girls than 2024-25, up 3.8 percent.
Weight classes
TSSAA uses the NFHS 12 class girls' set. The NFHS offers three, and a state association picks one and cannot switch mid-season. That is the 2025-26 set. As of 2026-09-22 TSSAA had not posted its 2026-27 classes; states re-pick among the three sets each year, so the season bulletin your coach has is the final word until it does.
- 100
- 107
- 114
- 120
- 126
- 132
- 138
- 145
- 152
- 165
- 185
- 235
Scratch weights, in pounds. The NFHS book lets 2 pounds be added to each class after certification as a growth allowance (4-4-4), and the TSSAA decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off cms-files.tssaa.org on 2026-09-22. The weight classes page puts this beside the NCAA, NAIA and international weights.
Growth allowance
The NFHS book says a growth allowance of 2 pounds "may be added to each weight class any time after the date of certification" (4-4-4). The TSSAA decides whether and when it applies.
The TSSAA sets when it applies; see its rules at tssaa.org, or ask your coach for the season bulletin.
Consecutive-day allowance
On consecutive days of team competition, the NFHS book grants every wrestler 1 pound a day, up to 2 pounds, when the opponent has been given at least 48 hours' notice (4-5-5). The TSSAA decides whether and when it applies and can add conditions of its own; what its documents say is below.
We have not yet read the TSSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the TSSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
TSSAA publishes a rule for this. A girl must be on her own school's eligibility list and in the TSSAA weight management program to enter the girls postseason, and a girl who wrestles or accepts a forfeit from a boy at any level during the regular season is barred from the girls state championship. The TSSAA publishes no provision for a girl to wrestle for a school other than her own.
From cms-files.tssaa.org, read 2026-09-03. The rule is the association's to change; the link goes to the page that will carry the change.
The general path, in the order that works: ask the athletic director first, in writing, whether the school will enter you and under what rule. Most schools have never been asked, and the answer to a written question goes on the record in a way a hallway conversation does not. If the school will not enter you, ask TSSAA directly what a student in your position may do; associations answer these, and the answer is the one that binds your school.
Train while you sort it out. A club room is where most girls in a state without a school team actually wrestle, and club season runs when the school season does not. The clubs in Tennessee are listed by city, with the girls' rooms and girls' practices flagged where the club says so.
Where it goes next
The state final is not the end of the line. These are the two places a Tennessee wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
2 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- KingNCAA D2
- Lincoln MemorialNCAA D2
Wrestlers from Tennessee
2 women in the record we keep grew up here. Their careers started in a room like the one down the road.
Before the season starts
A girl's legal minimum wrestling weight is built on the 19 percent body fat floor the NFHS sets for girls, not the boys' 7 percent. That is roughly sixteen pounds of difference for a fifteen year old, and every app built on the boys' number gets it wrong. How making weight works covers certification and what your state enforces at the scale, and when wrestling season starts has the year month by month and the first practice dates we have read off the associations' own pages.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off TSSAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-09-22. Associations change rules in the spring and post the new ones late; the links here go to the page that will carry the change first.
Cite this data
Checked
Women's Wrestling Club, "Tennessee girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/tn, checked 2026-09-22.
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